Chapter 155: Void's Core, Extinction's Lock!

When Sun Wukong, bringing Yao, charged out of the end of that law passage.

Everything before them suddenly became clear!

And deathly silence reached its extreme!

Behind them was a raging, surging ocean of elements devouring each other.

But before them.

Yet it was an absolute deathly silent void.

There was no light whatsoever.

There was no sound whatsoever.

Even the flow of laws had completely ceased.

It seemed as if this place was the grave of all things.

It was the end of everything.

Sun Wukong and Yao stood on the boundary between frenzy and deathly silence.

Feeling that extreme contrast!

At the very center of this deathly silent void.

A fist-sized golden seed hovered there, silent and still.

It emitted a weak yet incomparably pure void light.

That light was neither blinding nor scorching.

Yet it seemed able to soothe all agitation.

Letting all things return to ultimate tranquility.

That!

This is the Master's Void Seed!

It is the absolute core constituting this world embryo!

Sun Wukong's breath hitched slightly.

He was about to step forward.

However!

He quickly discovered something was off!

Upon that golden Dao Seed.

Actually, a pitch-black, eerie energy coiled around it!

That energy seemed to be condensed from the deepest despair and utter death!

It exuded a freezing aura so intense it could freeze divine souls!

"What is that?"

Sun Wukong furrowed his brows.

He tried to take a step closer to that Dao Seed.

Hum—!

It was this step!

The dark energy coiled around the Dao Seed suddenly shuddered!

An invisible, terrifying repelling force instantly burst forth!

Bang!!!

Sun Wukong, caught off guard, was actually shoved back several steps by that force!

On his usually arrogant and unrestrained face, for the first time, a hint of solemnity appeared!

"This is... the power of 'Ultimate Extinction'!"

Yao beside him, upon seeing that dark energy,

Her face turned deathly pale!

She cried out in alarm!

"It is said to be the supreme extinction law that transcends all laws!"

"It represents the ultimate annihilation and end of all things!"

"How could... how could it appear here!"

"And it has sealed the Bodhi Patriarch's Dao Seed!"

"Ultimate Extinction power?"

Sun Wukong listened to that unfamiliar name.

The gravity in his eyes gradually faded.

Replaced by an even fiercer, sky‑rocketing fighting spirit!

"Old Monkey here doesn't care whether you're 'Ultimate Extinction' or 'Beginning Extinction'!"

"You dare touch my Master's things!"

"You will die!!!

Sun Wukong roared furiously!

The Golden Cudgel in his hand instantly burst forth with ten‑zhang of black‑gold divine radiance!

He swung his arm round!

Exerting all his strength!

He fiercely smashed down upon that dark energy!

This strike!

It is enough to smash an entire matured great thousand world back into chaos!

However!

A strange scene occurred!

Sun Wukong's Golden Cudgel, capable of shattering star rivers, at the moment it struck that black energy.

It made no sound!

Nor did it stir any energy ripples!

That world-destroying power.

Just like that, it was silently and completely devoured by that black energy.

It was as if a pebble had fallen into an endless black hole!

Not even the slightest ripple was raised!

What?!

Sun Wukong froze!

He clearly felt it!

His own unmatched Equal Heaven Dao Rhythm, at the moment it came into contact with that black energy.

It was as if ice and snow had met the scorching sun!

It was rapidly melted!

It disintegrated!

And that black energy suffered no damage at all.

but became even more solid!

"Again!"

Sun Wukong refused to believe it!

He roared, waving the Golden Cudgel again and again!

Flames!

Thunder!

Space!

Even pure willpower impact!

He used every means he could think of!

But the results were all the same!

All of his attacks.

Could not budge that Terminus lock in the slightest!

In Sun Wukong's heart, for the first time, a feeling named impatience arose!

What the hell is this thing!

Just as Sun Wukong prepared to burn his own Dao Rhythm source at all costs, to forcefully break this strange seal.

Beside him, the pale-faced Yao suddenly grabbed him.

She looked at that black energy emanating a deathly aura.

She said in a voice filled with doubt and speculation.

"Wukong."

"This power."

"It may not be a mere seal."

"It is more like a kind of... protection."

Sun Wukong abruptly stopped his movements.

He looked toward Yao.

His face bore a look of confusion.

"Protection?"

"Protect what?"

Yao gazed at that black energy.

Her expression was very solemn.

"Have you noticed."

"This Terminus power, although terrifying,"

"but all its attacks merely melt and disintegrate your power."

"yet it has never actively attacked the Dao Seed itself."

"even the void around the Dao Seed remains perfectly undisturbed."

"This does not resemble a prison."

"rather, it seems to have tightly protected the Dao Seed."

Sun Wukong followed Yao's gaze.

He looked again at the golden Dao Seed floating in the void.

The core, encircled by the black energy.

Indeed, it has suffered no harm.

Even that faint light of nothingness.

Everything looks so peaceful.

This made him hesitate a bit.

"Guard?"

"But who would use such terrifying power to guard the Master's Dao Seed?"

Sun Wukong couldn't figure it out.

He thought of the Master's previous Dao Seeds.

They were all twisted by different forces.

They were used by different wills.

But never like this.

Protected by such an overbearing yet unusually "quiet" power.

"This power."

"This power is unlike any we have encountered before."

Yao's voice trembled slightly.

"It is too pure."

"Pure to the point of having no emotion, no vitality."

"It seems to be the very embodiment of 'End'."

"But precisely because of its purity."

"It will not be tainted by any desire."

Sun Wukong retracted the Golden Cudgel.

He again tried to use his divine sense to touch that dark energy.

This time.

He did not launch an attack again.

But with a hint of inquiry.

Hum—!

That icy repulsive force surged again.

But this time.

Sun Wukong was not knocked back.

He merely felt his divine sense rapidly dissolving.

Being disintegrated.

It was as if he dropped a drop of water into endless void.

That drop of water instantly lost all sense of existence.

But in this process of dissolution.

Sun Wukong faintly caught a trace.

Extremely faint.

But yet incredibly familiar.

Vibration!

That was the Master's aura!

Although it was wrapped by the power of 'Annihilation'.

But that aura, belonging to the Primordial Source of the Void Dao.

Still, so clear.

So familiar.

This made Sun Wukong extremely excited.

"It's the Master!"

"It's the Master's aura!"

He looked at Yao.

His eyes filled with unprecedented resolve.

"Yao."

"What you said is correct."

"This is not a seal."

"This is protection!"

"Moreover."

"This protective power."

"It was left by the Master!"

Yao listened to Sun Wukong's words.

She also froze.

"Bodhi Patriarch?"

"He used the power of 'Annihilation' to guard his own Dao Seed?"

"This... this is what a profound plan!"

Sun Wukong raised the Golden Cudgel again.

But this time.

On his face, the previous fury was gone.

What replaced it was a kind of calmness taken to the extreme, resolute!

Since it is the guardianship left by Master,

Then.

Just let this old monkey come and break it open!

No matter what kind of trial,

This old monkey will take them all!

He no longer wields the Golden Cudgel.

But instead, he thrust the Golden Cudgel heavily into the void beneath his feet!

Thud—

The entire deathly silent void trembled!

Sun Wukong's legs slightly bent.

His body was like a fully drawn giant bow!

His inner Equal Heaven Dao Rhythm erupted fully and completely!

Black-gold light shot up to the heavens!

In an instant, it illuminated the entire deathly silent void!

That light was overbearing!

Arrogant!

Unyielding!

Directly, he rushed toward the Dao Seed guarded by the power of 'End'!

That black energy seemed to also sense Sun Wukong's strong will!

It suddenly contracted!

It became more solid!

And colder!

But this time.

Sun Wukong no longer used force to blast it.

He merely took his Equal Heaven Dao Rhythm.

Transforming it into an invisible needle!

Carrying his longing for Master.

Carrying his yearning for freedom.

Carrying his 'Unyielding' toward fate!

Fiercely!

Toward that black power of 'End'!

He stabbed it!

Sizzle—

Like a red-hot branding iron stabbing into ice!

That power of 'End', icy to the extreme.

First time!

It emitted a sound barely audible.

A hiss!

The black-gold light and the black energy.

They violently collided!

No explosion!

No loud noise!

Only a silent dissolution!

And an overbearing erosion!

Sun Wukong's Equal Heaven Dao Rhythm, before that terrifying power of 'End'.

It was being disintegrated bit by bit!

It was being devoured bit by bit!

But.

He did not retreat!

His will was like the toughest steel!

He stubbornly held against that terrifying dissolving force!

He knew!

This is the final trial left by Master for him!

He must pass it!

Roar!!!

Sun Wukong let out a soul-shaking roar!

His body began to tremble slightly.

The golden mark on his brow.

Suddenly, it began to flicker!

The power of the Void Seed.

It was also there, at this moment.

and, his Equal Heaven Dao Rhythm.

Thoroughly, fused!

Double, the power of the Great Dao.

Instantly, it surged!

Boom!!!

A wave, several times stronger than before, of overbearing aura.

Suddenly, it burst forth from Sun Wukong's body!

That strand, the black 'Apocalypse' power.

Finally, it could no longer hold!

It began to tremble!

It began to warp!

It began to appear, one after another, tiny cracks.

"It's about to break open!"

Yao, standing beside, watched, unable to contain her excitement.

She knew.

Sun Wukong is about to break through this to guard!

To retrieve his master's Dao Seed!

Just at this moment!

Anomaly!

Arose suddenly!

That strand, the black 'Apocalypse' power.

In the crack, growing larger, about to completely shatter.

Suddenly!

Erupted a suction, thousands of times stronger than before, terrifying!

That suction.

Carrying an irresistible, absolute will to 'Conclusion'!

Instant!

It will take Sun Wukong's Equal Heaven Dao Rhythm.

and his forehead's Void Seed.

All!

Fiercely!

Toward that black crack.

Forcibly!

Pulled in!

"Wukong!!!"

Yao let out a frightened scream!

And before Sun Wukong's eyes.

Only.

Endless black!

Endless void!

He didn't even have time to react.

Consciousness.

Then, completely.

Sank into.

An expanse.

Chaos.